The fact that the False Purpose Rundown (FPRD) can be a workable technology does not mean that it was developed by L. Ron Hubbard or even aligns with his basic principles. Heimdal has studied the FPRD Course and pointed out some very relevant technical details indicating that it is not LRH tech. You will find his analysis here:http://www.dasdrittejahrtausend.de/FPRD-e.html

As I am not a highly trained auditor my analysis is more based on my experiences with people getting the FPRD and their subsequent change of mind. I was HCO Area Secretary (chief of personnel, communication and ethics) at Church of Scientology Denmark when FPRD delivery really took off in 1985-86. I got it myself also (several times) and had good wins on it. Anyway, my observations with people getting it are as follows:

Cogniting that they themself had caused all the problems they had with the Church. The trouble was not because of a destructive management, suppressive targets and orders, but because of their own O/W's and evil intentions. In other words taking on the responsibility of all the overts of management and blaming it on his own O/W's. While it is always true that a person completely causes his own feelings and problems and happiness etc. it is not true that the destructive management came from his overts. This is a one-way viewpoint and has a tendency to prove the person wrong and make him controlable. He usually feel a relief after FPRD because he now starts to take responsibility, and because he got some O/W and evil intentions off, which is always good. And then goes on a kind of propitiation and want to do everything he can to make good again all his misdeeds. When you have made bad you should after realising it make it good again. There is nothing wrong in that, but it gives a very easy going for a management who wants to take advantage of individuals in such a state of mind. Keep in mind that the CoS had lost probably well over half of their staff and publics during their "clean-out"

In other words it was no coincidence that this R/D came out in 1984. It was needed to get some of the people who was disaffected, but not completely lost back into the Church. Many people had to some degree lost confidence in the new management and giving those people a R/D which made them "congnite" that all the trouble was solely caused by their own O/W's was very conveniant.

And it worked. Good people who discovers that they have done bad are fairly easy to manipulate unfortunately. Taking advantage og this is nothing less than treason, betrayal after trust.

Video interviews, 2011

New book about life
in Scientology, 2011

AFHOPPEREN
Mine 20 år i Scientology
published by
Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag
on
28th September 2011

Jyllandsposten wrote

A well written and captivating portrayal of life with Scientology. But also in a broader sense a relevant journey into a state of mind, where sci-fi-science meets religiosity and management thinking.

’The Defector’ is well written and shocking. Especially the detailed descriptions of the main character's equal parts of intoxication and basic anxiety of being part of something larger...

The book is intelligently composed. Robert Dam 'cross-cuts' between his own history and the history of the Scientology movement from its beginnings with the author Hubbards bestseller 'Dianetics - The Modern Science og Mental Health' from 1950 through the scandals, the criticism and his death in 1986 and up until today.

Dam's story about Scientology is the story of what faith and certainty can do to a human being.But it is also a moral tale about putting a stop to something and to have the courage to dare do away with a part of ones' self.

Politiken wrote

Strong Scientology-biography confronts 20 years of fake and scam

In ’The Defector’ Robert Dam tells about his almost 20 years in Scientology, up till 2003, where he decided to tell the world about the greedy and lying system created by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard in 1950, who then carried on to develop his own religion...

Robert Dam wrote a website for ex-scientologists, which is the basis of his book..that has its strength in the well writen personal story, which the author apparently lays out undisguised.